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Political Architect. 



NEW SCHOOL SYSTEM, 
LABOR AND CAPITAL, 

Reorganization of Republics and Monarchies. 



Hold the ballot! Gods will be done, 
The rights of man the ballot won. 



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NEW SCHOOL SYSTEM, 
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Reorganization of Republics and Monarchies. 



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THE AEOHITECT. 



The declarations of wisdom, of reformatory work, leading 
to independence in behalf of the children of the earth, and 
the propounding of the rules and laws of self government of 
the nations, were the crowning models of thought, of precept 
and example in the design and illustration of the life and 
works of Jesus Christ. 

Other master Spirits of God's Creation have been inspired 
with ambition, the love of nature, of humanity and useful 
knowledge to inf use a sense of the appreciation of an equality 
of industry and Home Rule in the world, obedient to the 
Creator and the temporal prosperity of the race. 

Washington and his compatriots of America, the builders 
of the United States Republic, bore upon their banners of 
freedom, new life and hope to the struggling people every- 
where, to assure them of the perpetuation of the rights of man 
to uphold universal laws upon the pillars of the Temple of 
Liberty with the ballots of the citizens. 

Abraham Lincoln and his co-operators were stimulated 
also in the cause of humanity and the prosperity of the 
citizen to emancipate the values of all slave property held in 
the United States two hundred years ; the realization of the 
event in history has inspired the progressive millions of re- 
formers to the advocacy of the emancipation of all values of 
property, either of man or beast, of lands or chattels, and to 
prepare the coming issue of the universal liberty of all pro- 



perty, and of labor from the imposition and oppression of 
money values and a money oligarchy. 

Hold the ballot ! Grod-like men of worth . 
Ameriea awards you the prize of her birth. 

The foremost questions of reform before the people of all 
nations in the crisis of progress, of civilization and the rights 
of man, demand the intelligent co-operation of the majority to 
the united support of these important propositions : 

1st. The abolition of all laws stipulating values or prices on 
labor, and the works of nature and art either of earth or air or 
the waters thereof. 

2nd. The abolition of all laws hitherto providing land 
grants, titles and patents tending to taxation and monopoly. 

3rd. The abolition of all laws which legalize the owner- 
ship of property, of lands and products or money to citizens 
of the Republic or monarchy. 

4th. The abolition of all laws directing the purchase and 
sale of any and all real and personal property throughout 
the world. 

5th. To promulgate an act of national law to provide free 
labor schools and labor departments for the attendance of 
citizens for life to be self sustaining and perpetual. 

6th. To enact a universal law requiring an equality of labor 
duty performed by all able bodied citizens, and to establish a 
political right of use of all real and personal property to every 
citizen on demand, for said labor and service to the State in 
obedience to the laws of the people and the decree of the 
Ruler of the universe, that mankind shall labor for their bread 
and legalize this impartial obligation the perpetual law of all 
nations and succeeding generations. 

Hold the ballot! equal rights demand. 

The sovereigns of labor shall take the command. 

To con sec rule the living policy of God and man on the issue 
of justice and eternal law, to endow all lands and all property 



forever free of money values and free from purchase and sale, 
and of personal ownership, should meet the commendation and 
support of the people of all the earth, and prompt them to 
exersise their influence and political powers to partition the 
land estates of the nation, and of all nations into farms of 
twenty or forty acres, to meet the domestic wants of the-agri- * 
cultural school departments, the tillers of the lands, and the 
citizens generally. 

The law of partition to take effect after the majority of 
the people shall have voted to endow the estates to the pub- 
lic trust of the people for the perpetual use of the society, 
without value or ownership. Friends of the endowment cause 
will open register books for the names of the citizen voters, 
to become members, and organize reform clubs to establish 
the society in all the States of the American Union. 

Citizens hitherto associated with the political parties of 
the country, identified with the reform and progress of their 
fathers dertermine that impartial freedom of the citizen is the 
golden rule of the world in the right of the provision and use 
of labor and capital and must be realized and legalized the 
joint reward of the community. 

During the next 100 years, the conditions of wealth and 
poverty will become extinct as the struggles for freedom and 
equal rights must culminate in the over throw of all property 
distinction, of poverty and wealth as demeaning the character 
of man, and ignoble in the sight of the ever-living Creator. 

Hold the ballot! the school and the press, 
Freedom from tyrants, the people redress. 

The political architect assumes that all citizens of the re- 
public may become their own house builders and free land 
holders; that capital and money shall no longer dictate and 
compete with labor to the disadvantage of either as it be- 
comes the people who produce the wealth of the nation to 



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coDtrol the products of machine and hand labor to be equally 
awarded to the laborer, the capitalist, the official or the in- 
ventors; that the only advantage to be derived by one above 
the other, may consist of the honors and awards of merit to 
whom the inventor or the man of genius may possess of su- 
perior credit for extraordinary effort and skill above his fel- 
low citizen. 

The honors conferred to Morse, Whitney, Watts, How, 
Fulton, Wheeler and others were extraordinary, and all suffi- 
cient without giving them a monopoly of the machine pro- 
ducts of one hundred days work, to one of hand labor. 
Capitalists and investors should employ the labor, the land 
estates, the resources of nature and art, together with the Lakes, 
Rivers, Mountains, Oceans, and mines in conjunction and 
equality with the intelligence of the people to advance human 
prosperity and harmony. 

The indulgence of unfair competition, of speculation and 
gambling upon the products of food and clothing and the 
and estates need reformation. 

The combination of large wealth is mostly confined to the 
practices of the least honor and utility. 

Bogus prizes surmount brilliant diamonds, The political 
and civil rights of society advance as the practical duties of 
life and the awards of industry were equalized to disseminate 
honest principles. 

Time and labor wasted in building Solomon's Temples, 
Marble Palaces, Tall Towers and structures for Heathen like 
worshippers should end in a reformation of this folly on the 
American Continent. 

Hold the ballot! The Patriot Band, 
For country and banner united will stand. 
Members of the department schools and colleges of labor 
and learning combined should organize their occupations to 
perfect the arts, science and the mechanical improvements 



agreeable to the capacity and the promotion of the citizen 
members. 

The inventors of the temporal necessities of life in the 
practice of free labor, free schools, free trade, and the use of 
the ballot are the forces of reform to meet the mutual support 
of mankind. 

Distinctions of wealth and poverty are antagonistic, the 
cause of war and are derogatory to the peaceful avocations of 
progress, the extremes blight the fair proportions of creation. 
No harmony can survive a people half rich and half poor. 
The irrepressible conflict is raging between these conditions of 
society as with those identified with the country before the war 
of being half slave and half free, Mr. Seward predicted the 
conflict and the living world realizes the sequel. 

Compulsory labor and education should be legalized as a 
Democratic Republican measure and become a favorite princi- 
ple of universal law. 

Hold the ballot! free schools promote, 
Work and study perpetuates the vote. 

The simple terms or words of master, mistress, slave, serv- 
ant, beggai, tramp, are, in the spirit of their use, a reproach, 
an insult, a violation to common sensibility and charity, and 
ought to become obsolete. 

The sweet sounding words, in the barbarian sense, "The 
poor ye have with you always," may henceforth refer only to 
the poor in health and strength, the poor in heart and mind, 
but not to the poor in this world's treasures 

The people of the United States should convey all the real 
estate and personal property to the representative security of 
the people who may assume the credit of the nation and 
pledge the products of productive industry, and knowledge 
for the perpetual security of life, liberty and the pursuit of 
happiness, and pledge, also the payment of the principal and 
interest, for the benefit of the citizens. 



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Agents of public trust need not sell or convey the public 
property, but let and .lease the same in limited farm tracts to 
the members of the school departments, until the money sys- 
tem is abrogated. 

The endowment representation should share equally with 
the members of the industrial societies and perform the du- 
ties of labor in common with officials and members, that the 
awards of the products may be equalized to assure peace and 
prosperity, and avoid the heathen imposition of class dis- 
tinctions, of wealth and poverty. 

Hold the ballot! repeal the blue laws, 
Enactments of justice the people applause. 

Labor and capital should provide the people adequate time 
and means for a more general and perfect education and a 
social condition, of all classes the Farmers, Clothiers, Hat- 
ters, Shoemakers, Builders, Printers, <fca, that the labors of 
these classes may be fairly awarded. 

Capital may depend upon labor to the degree of obligation 
and freedom that labor is dependent on capital for the inde- 
pendence and peace of society. 

Wanted, 100,000 American citizens, to join the endowment 
society to organize a combination of co-operative industrial 
interests in the United States to establish perpetual schools and 
workshops or depaitments of 1,000 members of each trade, 
and occupation, and classify the 40,000,000 people, where the 
members may divide their time, and devote certain hours to 
labor, education, rest and recreation. 

The advanced political rights of mankind conceded from 
one citizen to another in the relations of society consist in 
the recognition and compliance with productive labor, and 
educational duties, imposed upon them by God and man, for 
self-protection and self-government to provide the bread of 
life, and the development of their being on the earth. 



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The vote by ballot, trial by jury, projection of life, liberty, 
and property, free schools, free speech, free labor, free farms, 
free assemblage and protection with the Hapeas Corpus 
act with these inalienable rights, the people will provide a 
political condition, above that of wealth and poverty, and 
empower the citizen to redress his wrongs, either in work or 
pleasure and sustain his rights in the use of the ballot, the 
ruler of the world. 

Since the invention of the 1 sewing machine, and other labor 
saving improvements, were introduced ; the machine products 
of the labor of the country, is equal to nine-tenths the hand 
labor products, demanding twelve hours daily labor, no 
longer to be endured, and while these improvements lessen 
the hours of work, and lessen the amount of work for hand 
laborers, and also their income they should not lessen the 
common interest which people of society should possess, to 
equality of labor, of duty, and a support in them. 

Sold the ballot ! gentle women of the age 9 
Fraternal work your franchise engage. 

The labor party of the world invite the industrial parties 
of all nations to join them in the advocacy of the Endow- 
mentor's perpetual school of progress and reform to advance 
political economy and authorize the investment of all real and 
personal property and money to the public trust and use of 
the people without a qualification of wealth or the disgrace of 
poverty and crime. 

Citizens of all nations will consent to convey all public and 
private property to the State by bequest endowment or sale 
to ensure the present and future security of life and liberty for 
this generation and principles of honesty to the next. 

Co-operators ignore the petty pursuits of money making 
acquired in the purchase and sale of bread, meat, wood, coal, 
potatoes, and flour by the quart while speculators are in- 
dulged to monopolize the products by the tyranny of the 



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money system, the "barbarians of old imposed on the world. 

The labor and school reformers of the State design an 
equitable scale of awards, the incentive for ambition and 
honorable mention of prize medals, and badges, the substitute 
for money in lieu of wages and servitnde. 

The awards of merit attainable by work and devotion to 
self reliance and fhe prospect of promotion of members in the 
school departments. 

All producers worthy to obtain their daily bread and social 
comforts without hire or the payment of wages. 

Citizens of high or low degree required by the law of na- 
ture and the rules of the Endowment Society to become self 
providing except from disability not regardless of Democratic 
law and obedience. 

Hold the ballot ! family, church and school, 
Education calls the vote at the poll. 

Limitiaton of the acquirement of personal property and 
endowment of all property to freedom, should be among the 
first efforts of reform of the people of the next century 

The possession of monster wealth of land estates and millions 
of money and values of labor products in the control of those 
educated to practice the divine life of poverty and wealth 
should come under condemnation. 

Had the hording of money and property been prohibited 
under the Constitution of America there would be no property 
endowment, or almsgiving or charity institutions. 

Personal support should depend upon direct co-operative 
labor to meet demand and supply in common. Ministers, 
actors, lawyers, wood-choppers, doctors, farmers, coal-heavers 
and mechanics, should do their quota of legalized labor to pro- 
mote health, respectability and common honesty. 

There is little honor and less merit in the attainment of the 
position of a millionaire and little security to life and the pur- 
suit of happiness derived therefrom. 



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The selling of coffins, tape, pictures, whiskey, bread, real 
estate is an idle indulgence, and of little productive use to 
society. Gold and silver are the stumbling steps to tempta- 
tion and crime. 

Ownership of money and property fosters idleness and 
extravagance to the detriment of industry, economy and 
generosity. 

Gold and silver may be converted into medals of honor 
trinkets and time pieces bearing no value except as a token 
of award and use and meritorious service. 

Hold the ballot! forward the strife, 
Independence the treasure of every day life. 

The industrial school departments of the country should 
embody with them the teaching, exercise and discipline of 
the military organization of the nation as provided for prac- 
tice, and combine also the manufactory of the army, and 
equipments of the soldiery. 

A reorganization of the fire department into working and 
educating schools for the employment of the officers and men 
of the deparment to provide the arms of defence against fire 
should be adopted. 

The industrial system should be organized in the police 
department and in all other p Lblic business where the service 
of the people may become self supporting and also give dig- 
nity to the officials and members. 

Children and teachers departments, toy makers, publishers 
of books will engage the industry and teaching of children 
dividing the exercises with mental and physical training for 
duty and promotion to advanced positions. 

Daniel Webster said of his country "this lovely land; this 
glorious liberty; these benign institutions; the dear purchase 
of our fathers, are ours; ours to love; ours to enjoy; ours to 
preserve; ours to transmit." 



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The mighty Webster often dwelled upon the future of his 
country the transmitting of the American continent to the 
protection of the people, that the lands, the improvements, 
the inventions, the public works, the public schools, and the 
private properties should combine equalize and harmonize 
the material with the spiritual interests to perpetuate the 
eternal laws of nature, and the arts of peace to self-represen- 
tation. 

Hold the ballot ! God's will be done, 
The rights of men the ballot won. 

The New York Herald sums the political plunder of the 
city by the officials $3,481,000 per annum, filched from the 
treasury and the tax payers. 

The 100,000 lawyers, professionals, and non productive 
agents, must of necessity perform their quota of labor while 
they occupy positions of honor propounding and teaching 
law and gospel philosophy and literature or science in the 
department schools of the nation, and henceforth abandon 
the assumption and importance among men above the God 
who made them. 

Hold the ballot ! stars and stripes reveye, 
In peace or war the flag is near. 

The popular majority of the votes of the people should 
elect the President of the United States and the subordinate 
officers, except the number of electors chosen for each State 
may be in proportion to the legal votes cast. 

Henry Clay was defeated for Presidentof the United States 
in the canvass of 184-1 with a popular vote in his favor and 
the defeat was the disfranchisement of 100,000 citizens or more. 
Hold the ballot! centuries have passed, 
Defending the laws for ages to last. 

The United States supports 50,000 clergymen at an expense 
of $14,000,000, as a small matter of reform, the respectable 
clergymen are advised to take an active part in the co-opera- 



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tive clubs of the endowment society, that their health may- 
be preserved and the taxes reduced, and the singing of glory 
to God and the people, not to mammon, may resound the 
wide world over. 

The wealth of real estate, money bonds and the products, 
held exclusive by the ring of property owners is inadequate 
to increase and double the wealth within their own circle, 
hence the cry of hard times. 

Through the fraud of the credit system, the debt of the 
United States, (per New York Sun) sums the amount of 
$5,000,000,000, while other nations assume proportionate ob- 
ligations depending on the taxation of the people outside of 
the money ring to pay for the follies of the past, present, and 
the future. 

The endowment reformers of the city and county of New 
York propose to assemble at their club rooms in the several 
wards on the first of every month, to discuss the business of 

the society. 

Hold the ballot ! men's wisdom and choice, 
To Grod and the right shall ever rejoice. 

The endowment of estates and millions of money to char- 
ity, free labor and education by the millionaires of America, 
George Peabody, Peter Cooper, C. Vanderbilt, Mr. Astor, 
Mr. Stewart and others has inspired a popular movement, 
all men may well afford to imitate if with no greater sum 
than the endowment of one dollar. 

The good women of the nation give fair promise to sup- 
port the new perpetual school system, and universal suffrage, 
that their teaching, influence and handy work shall be a free 
offering to the endowment policy and possess a representa- 
tive voice in the nation with the ballot to justify taxation 
with representation. 

The financial system in all ages has proved a fraud in re 
tarding the progress and civilization of mankind, never more 



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so than in the 19th century, but with all the unequal com- 
petition of money against poverty in the rivalry of human 
power for the supremecy of right or wrong, of money against 
money, vote against vote, it is bnt little to see that law and 
order, peace and equalization must survive the artificial ideas 
of those who support the dogma of the superiority of men of 
wealth, over men of poverty and the inferiority of the blood 
of an untaimed horse to an educated one. 

Hold the ballot ! co-operators of toil, 
The people inherit the rights of the soil. 

A currency for the United States and the world should be 
provided of greater account than gold and silver, one that 
could not change, let the people authorize the issue of a 
currency with a material bearing the government stamp, but 
with no value of the form of a check, pass or individual prize 
of merit, not transferable, exchanged nor given up during 
life, but to be recognized as a mark of individuality in favor 
of the holder, and known only as a political representative 
of labor authorized by the people for the people, to hold 
these checks of honor for the use of labor and the products 
in return for the service in lieu of money that the use of no 
value-checks, shall become the standard equivalent for the 
use of all property labor for labor product, for product that 
with the American endowment society, the idea and method 
of a currency in imitation of that of the iron age will become 
universally adopted. 

Hold the ballot ! disarm the foe, 
Monarchies power no aid bestow. 

"Ye are bought with a price, be not ye the Servants of man," 

Bible command, ist cor 73. 

Hold the ballot! men of all nations, 
Welcome the women with ruling relations. 



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The monopoly class or ring in the control of the railroads, 
canals, and all the interests of God's earth with the profession 
of the law at its head and tail already own of lands, deeds, 
bonds, money, bequests, patent interests labor saving ma- 
chinery and the products, (next to owning the people as 
slaves) the productive life of the country thereby consigning 
the people to poverty and crime. 

The ring hypocritically deceive the public in the belief 
that political freedom is enjoyed by the use of the ballot 
with free education, equal rights, and social independence, 
that all men are on a par with those who own and speculate, 
and sport, and gamble on the peoples' heritage. Common 
schools provide no practical lessons of industry, no food nor 
clothing for poor children, nor will the monopolist of horded 
estates, give work and prosperity out of uncultivated farms. 

Honest simplicity, liberality and fraternal fellowship is ex- 
emplified only with the youth of any and all countries prior 
to their teaching, being taught the habits and customs of the 
money world. 

Hold the ballot ! temporal rights uphold, 
God rules the day the future to unfold. 

Correspondence relative to organizing clubs auxiliary to the 
endowment society, and all orders for the architect, should be 
addressed Holmes, Photographer, No. 596 Broadway, New 
York. 

Social science not a problem of chance but one of method, 
to organize a systematic organization of rules that every citizen 
may acquire an equal interest in the pursuits of labor, of 
business^ and education, that the honors and the emoluments 
of society may be awarded agreeable to merit, and direct a 
combination of the hand and machinery products, shall apply 
co-operatively, and equally for the peoples' mutual interest. 
The game of chance, of speculation and uncertain results of 



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the money system is inadequate to the promotion of human 
progress and respectable society. 

The decline of prices and values of property and money 
indicates reform and equalization of the people's condition 
advancing to fraternal fellowship and equal rights. 

Speculation leads to wealth, and sudden bankruptcy, to 
starvation and the waste of millions of dollars of the products 
of corn, bread, meat, and clothes, with the system of free 
labor, and free products, the producers will possess their own 
reward. 

The people of the United States have dethroned two 
kings, and it devolves upon them to abdicate king mighty 
dollar, he being the most obnoxious of all the monarchs, 
which must cause accelerated joy at the next centennial of 
the independence of America in 1976 

Hold the ballot ! purchase and sale, 

In birth rights of duty no bargains prevail. 

The people should establish reform clubs in all the States 
of the American Union to remodel the government and the 
Constitution of the country in accordance with co-operative 
labor duty, and the banishment of the credit system, and 
enact a national law to cancel the national debt, a measure 
commendable to the people of all governments. 

Whoever dreams that England or America will ever settle 
their national war debts will dream in vain. 

The debt of the United States, both public and private, 
amounts to the sum of $5,000,000,000, and all the other 
nations assume proportionate little obligations, depending on 
taxation of the laboring clases, and millions now unborn to 
pay the debt of these frauds and follies of monopolies. 

"Those who would be free must first strike the blow: Freedom's 
battle once begun, o'i't is baffled and ever won. 



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Money is a bad measure an unfit symbol of labor and 
the products, more befiting the barbarian age of the Jews 
of old than the era of Christianity of 1876. Economy of 
wealth at the expense of the poor is insanity. The products 
of labor and all property measured by purchase and sale of 
prices, and values, directed by an honest free distribution 
and use, other than a "vicious money system", would afford 
the people prosperity and equal rights. 

The markets of the world glut with, corn, meat, clothes, 
and gewgaws, and the great evil of the hour is hording, and 
waste of material, time and labor. 

Hold the ballot ! fair sons of the earth, P. 
America awards you the prize of her birth. 

The military and civil service of the country should be ad- 
ministered from the source and head of the organized power 
of the people in the departments of the trades and profes- 
sions and schools co-operating as one body in the interest of 
the whole to dispose of a needless army of idlers, and 
avoid extra taxation, unavoidable in the support of separate 
departments for the military and civil service as now\ 

The department schools of 1,000 membeis acting in con- 
sort one with another and all subject to the will of Congress, 
the Supreme Court, and the President of the country, may 
perform the official business of the customs, postal and pa- 
tent duties, the military and police service, the appointment 
of counsel, and the election of judges for each department 
an honorary service, while in the multiplicity of the citizens 
occupations of the departments, the members will demand 
from their co-operators less than three hours of productive 
labor duty per day, the society not omiting the officials who 
are not in the occupation of money making but in that of 
honor to obtain the wealth that thieves cannot steal. 



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Hold the ballot ! the State and nation, 
For union and peace exalted the station. 

To illustrate the practibility of the co-operative society 
of tlie United States, as indicated in this pamphlet, will 
consist of the organization and establishment of three of the 
most formidable mechanical trades in the world, into indus- 
trial and educational school departments, with buildings and 
lands providing the combined facilities for productive work 
and education for 3,000 people, the boot and shoe makers, 
the hatters and the clothiers, each trade and school to com- 
prise 1,000 members males and females. 

The locality for the enterprise may be selected on Long 
Island or in New Jersey where the erection of home build- 
ings will be required for the members of the society and 
their families. 

The capital to be obtained by loan or subscription at the 
legal rate of interest, 

The products of manufacture to clothe 3,000 members of 
the trades society will be delivered free on demand to all the 
members. 

The surplus goods produced to be sold or exchanged in 
the various markets and the money or its equivalent realized 
after deducting the interest paid on the original debt w r ill 
be invested for meat, flour and the necessary products re- 
quired for the society, and to be also distributed free on de- 
mand of the members, without money or price. 

The purchase and sale or the ownership of the lands, and 
the products, on the part of individual members prohibited, 
except a member may withdraw from the society, he may 
transfer or sell his interest to another. 

The surplus products on hand at the expiration of six or 
twelve months, after deducting the cost of supply, will be 
sold, and the money devided equally among all the mem- 
bers. 



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The officials and directors of the society must perform offi- 
cial and productive duty, in common with the working 
members for the honor of the positions and an equal award 
in the general provision of the profits and prosperity. 

Those who may be inclined to denounce this pamphlet as 
the work of a communist and an instrument to disorganize 
society on a par with the communists of France and those 
who have advocated the use of property without affording 
value for value, will mistake the purpose and object for which 
this work was written Nothing short of an earnest desire for 
reform in society could animate the perpetrator of it, and the 
reader is most respectfully advised to take the word for the 
deed. As my worthy friend once said, " These are my alle- 
gations, and I am the allegator." 

Hold the ballot ! Washington's renown, 
The people's reward, no hero to crown. 



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